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Staff Profile: Dimitar Bechev

Recent Commentary

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  08 Sep 11
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  27 Jul 11
• Turkey: the predictable elections that matter
  10 Jun 11

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Recent Blogs

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  21 Mar 12
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  09 Mar 12
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  29 Feb 12
• Sofia view: blackbirds and hawks
  15 Feb 12
• Sofia view: a Serbo-Croat thaw in the freezing Balkans
  07 Feb 12

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recent press

• euinside
  18 Apr 12
• EUinside
  11 Apr 12
• Europost
  31 Mar 12
• Open Democracy
  18 Mar 12

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Dimitar Bechev is a Senior Policy Fellow and Head of ECFR's office in Sofia. He is also affiliated with South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College, Oxford. In 2006-2010, Dimitar was a Research Fellow at Oxford's European Studies Centre and held a lectureship in International Relations at Worcester College, Oxford and a visiting professorship at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He is a Region Head for Central and Eastern Europe at Oxford Analytica, a leading consultancy on current political and economic affairs. 

Dimitar has published widely on the EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policies as well as the politics and modern history of the Balkans. He is the author of The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia (2009), Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World (2010, co-edited with ECFR Council Member Kalypso Nicolaidis) and Constructing South East Europe: the Politics of Balkan Regional Cooperation (2011) as well as articles in leading periodicals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies and East European Politics and Societies. He holds a D.Phil. (2005) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as graduate degrees in International Relations and Law from Sofia University. Dimitar holds a D.Phil. (2005) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as graduate degrees in International Relations and Law from Sofia University.

Areas of expertise: EU enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, the politics of wider South East Europe (post-communist Balkans, Greece, Turkey), EU-Russia relations, Euro-Mediterranean relations

Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Macedonian, Modern Greek; some French, Spanish and Italian; basic Turkish and German

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), +359 242 4052

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